In other words, if queer theory is any indication, the favorable conditions in the marketplace for interdisciplinary studies may well be only temporary, and the ability then of queer theory to challenge disciplinarity may be limited not only by its theoretical difficulties but also by its trendy status.

Recently these sociological concepts have been integrated with concepts from Systemic Functional Linguistics and Semiotics (SFL/S) to analyse both the epistemological and linguistic features of disciplinarity (Christie & Martin, 1997; Coffin, 2006; Wignell, 2007).

Both Foucault and Moravia were key references for the collection Inventing Human Science: Eighteenth-Century Domains, edited by Christopher Fox, Roy Porter, and Robert Wokler (1995), which also focused on disciplinarity.

The rhetoric of disavowal is as old as disciplinarity itself: by projecting an illusory coherence on "literary studies" from which it then imagines itself excluded, cultural studies can arrogate to itself a unity and definition that it otherwise lacks.

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